Congress just held a 2-hour hearing on aliens, because Congress

Congress just held a two-hour hearing on aliens because Congress

With just seven days in session for 2013, members of the least productive Congress ever spent two hours Wednesday talking about extraterrestrial life forms.The House Science Space and Technology committee invited three scientists from NASA, MIT and the Library of Congress to discuss “astrobiology and the search for biosignatures in our solar system and beyond it.” Translation: aliens.A cool topic, but with legislation like the passing a budget, a farm bill and immigration reform stuck in Congress, devoting precious time ...